After rebirth, the eldest sister voluntarily abdicated and gave way to the wise.

Chapter 381 Mural

But it was obviously too late.

Shen Qingqing's hand touched the paper covering the beauty lamp.

The voice sounded again, this time more cautious and urgent: "Smash the Nine Sacred Stones. Don't let her get them!"

Before Jiang Liqian's brain could react, her body had already moved. The Soul-Suppressing Pearl flew out, and when Shen Qingqing was about to penetrate the lampshade and grab the Nine Sacred Stones inside, it took the initiative to strike through the Beauty Lamp with a fierce blow.

Everyone saw a sudden flash of light and shadow, and then the Nine Sacred Stones and the Samsara Pearl that were quietly rotating in the center of the Beauty Lamp were separated and shattered in the air.

At this moment, all the suppression on everyone was lifted, and everyone felt relaxed and able to move freely again.

But just when everyone breathed a sigh of relief, the shattered Nine Sacred Stones and the fragments of the Samsara Pearl suddenly merged together. Before anyone could react, a black and gold rotating space vortex suddenly formed, which suddenly sucked in Jiang Liqian and Shen Qingqing who were very close to it. Even Song Nian'er could not escape and was sucked into the vortex.

After they fell into the vortex, it immediately disappeared, and the fragments of the Nine Sacred Stones and the Samsara Pearl disappeared completely.

Xu Youan's eyes were filled with fear. He wanted to rush over and grab his senior sister's hand, but the iron chains on his body locked him tightly to the cylinder.

“Senior Sister——!”

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After the violent vortex stopped, Jiang Liqian was thrown directly into a rough wall, and her bones made a "crackling" sound and almost broke.

Jiang Liqian got up from the ground covered in dust and dirt, and immediately looked around vigilantly to observe the situation.

The place where she was now was a dim, ancient-looking stone cave, which was connected from front to back, but it was impossible to tell how deep the cave was.

On the walls on both sides of the cave, there was a glowing fluorite inlaid at intervals. Under the illumination of the fluorite, she could actually see simple pictures painted with unknown paint on the walls on both sides.

These pictures are as old as the stone wall, and many of the colors have fallen off, but if you look closely, you can still understand what is painted on them.

Since she didn't know whether to go forward or backward, Jiang Liqian simply decided to follow the development of the story in the picture on the stone wall.

Although the picture is large and occupies a long space on the stone wall, the story is very simple.

It tells the story of a kind and beautiful girl who could not bear to see the sufferings of the human world, so she stole rice seeds from heaven that could resist disease and disasters, allowing the people of the human world to fill their stomachs and no longer have to endure hunger. The girl was also elected by the people as their queen.

Later, the girl died, and her soul was taken away by the soldiers of heaven and received an extremely severe judgment.

Because of stealing seeds, the girl was punished by having her eyes gouged out, her limbs chopped off, and placed in the south of heaven and earth. A divine bird would peck at her flesh and blood every day, and her bones and meridians would be thrown into the endless abyss in the north of heaven and earth. Her punishment would end when her bones and meridians could fill the endless abyss.

This is a warning to the untouchables in the human world that if they covet unattainable things, they will be punished most cruelly.

In hopes of expediting the girl's execution and allowing her to be reincarnated, the people of the human world designated the day of her birth as Flying Phoenix Day. On this day, they would journey to the north of heaven and earth and throw animal bones or cut branches into the endless abyss to replace the girl's bones and meridians. They would also hold large bird hunting gatherings, hoping to prevent birds from pecking at the girl's flesh and blood.

Later, with the devout prayers of the people, the girl's soul was liberated and she ascended to become a god, enjoying eternal worship in the world. She was also known as the Rice Goddess of the human world, and the divine bird became the messenger for the goddess to spread the oracle.

After reading it, Jiang Liqian felt that the authenticity of this ancient story was questionable and it was very likely a fabrication by later generations. But in front of the last mural, she saw a divine bird standing on the girl's shoulder. The eye area of ​​the divine bird was sunken and there was no eye.

Based on the shape of the groove, she immediately remembered the small stone she accidentally found in the deserted courtyard where the ground was full of thousand-year-old spiritual plants.

She took out a small stone from her Qiankun bag, compared the shapes, and tentatively pressed it into the eye of the divine bird.

There was no resistance at all. Jiang Liqian even felt a slight suction, which tightly attached the small stone to the eye of the divine bird, as if it was there naturally.

Jiang Liqian took a step back, waiting to see if anything changed. She looked into the bird's eyes and felt as if it were looking back at her.

This feeling made her whole body go goosebumps and a chill arose from the bottom of her heart.

She was about to look away from the pair of eyes that gave her goosebumps, but the next moment she suddenly fell backwards, and her whole body penetrated into the mural.

When she opened her eyes, what she saw was not the scene of the Rice Goddess ascending to heaven, but her own face under the dark sky.

One is exactly like her, and the other is "her".

"She" voluntarily walked up to the high altar step by step, facing the bloody sunset, and let the divine bird peck at her flesh and blood peacefully and calmly.

The divine bird does not like rotten food. In order to prevent herself from bleeding to death so quickly, "she" circulated her spiritual power to maintain her body's life while swallowing pills in big gulps.

Only after the divine bird had eaten all of her flesh and blood did she close her eyes and let out her last warm breath.

The sunset glow in the sky became more and more brilliant. Countless divine birds circled above the altar, flapping their wings and chirping something, as if they were crying blood, or shouting out of hunger. They were not satisfied and had not eaten enough.

The skeleton collapsed in the harsh cold wind and rolled off the altar.

Then, another "she" slowly walked out from the end of the long stairs, walked up to the altar calmly, and sacrificed herself to the divine bird, as if she didn't know what kind of pain she would experience from being eaten, and then die.

The divine bird cried "wuwu" and rushed towards the altar.

Then there was blood.

Then comes the bone.

Then there was another "she".

This cycle repeats itself over and over again, and the sunset glow in the sky is so red that it seems to be dripping blood.

Jiang Liqian could no longer bear to look at it. It was the same face, the same body. She seemed to be able to feel the excruciating pain of her flesh and blood being eaten away.

After repeating this for who knows how many times, the blood on the altar suddenly dried up, and the divine birds stopped pecking at the raw meat. Instead, they flapped their wings and flew towards her.

Jiang Liqian was extremely sure that it was not an illusion or a fantasy, but that those divine birds really existed and were really coming towards her.

She immediately summoned the Soul-Suppressing Pearl and used twelve golden beads to form a formation to protect herself inside.

But the divine birds completely ignored her formation, passed through it easily, and headed straight for her.

Jiang Liqian's pupils trembled, and she was shocked, but she did not slow down and immediately retreated.